Strategic Sourcing Business Services Coordinator – Outsourcing - Americas

Unilever is currently hiring for Strategic Sourcing Business Services Coordinator – Outsourcing - Americas

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.   

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future. 

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work you do - creating a better business and a better world. If you have analytical skills, enjoy working in teams, and engaging with different stakeholders, then this challenge is exactly for you! 

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Supports the execution of regional strategic sourcing projects and is responsible for local negotiation planning & execution, ensuring commercial benefit (savings) captured in benefits tools and signed off by finance.
• Working with Strategic Sourcing Manager, Portfolio Lead, regional stakeholders and supplier ops to determine preferred supplier listings and agreeing rate cards for regional suppliers.
• Proactively work with Supplier Ops to ensure day to day transactional work is being supported and making use of eProcurement tools to deliver increased value.
• Working closely with Key iOps stakeholders and Strategic Sourcing Manager to develop and delivery market specific portfolio strategies.
• Providing credible market data and local supplier segmentation, creating detailed budget and spend analysis to identify sourcing pipeline and plan that meets local business needs.
• Ensuring contractual commitments are in place and signed off by stakeholders, legal and finance as appropriate.
• Manage escalation issues arising from markets and seek help from Strategic Sourcing manager or Portfolio lead as needed.
• Proactively ensure transparency and compliance with business policies for sourcing activities in iOps.
• Ensuring that stakeholders are complying to company policy and guidelines, providing tips and tools to help local buying in markets where procurement resource is unavailable.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Procurement experience (Indirect Procurement) will be preferred
• Knowledgeable in Sourcing, negotiation and contracting
• Understanding of supply market, value chain, and FMCG knowledge. Knowledge of Outsourcing and other business services portfolios is a strong plus.
• Experience in supplier relationship management
• Experience on medium-large scale project management
• Knowledge of Unilever business systems is a plus i.e., Coupa, CLM, SRS and Aravo, as well as Analytical tools (Excel, powerBI).
• Proficiency in Portuguese and English are required.
• Proficiency in Spanish is desirable.​

Skills

• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to build strong  relationships across diverse teams and regions.

• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop others.

• Stakeholder management.

• Agile Delivery.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way. 
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better. 

• Critical UNILEVER Behaviours

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions. 
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience. 
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers. 
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever. 
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills. 

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.   

Unilever es una organización comprometida con la equidad, la inclusión y la diversidad para impulsar los resultados de nuestro negocio y crear un futuro mejor, cada día, para nuestros diversos empleados, consumidores globales, socios y comunidades. Creemos que una fuerza laboral diversa nos permite igualar nuestras ambiciones de crecimiento e impulsar la inclusión en todo el negocio. ¡En Unilever estamos interesados en que cada individuo traiga su 'Whole Self' al trabajo y esto te incluye a ti! Por lo tanto, si necesita algún requisito de soporte o acceso, le recomendamos que nos avise en el momento de su solicitud para que podamos apoyarle a través de su viaje de reclutamiento.